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- The Ptolemies, The Sea and The Nile
- The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- In memoriam F. W. Walbank
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The Ptolemaic League of Islanders
- Chapter 3 Callicrates of Samos and Patroclus of Macedon, champions of Ptolemaic thalassocracy
- Chapter 4 Rhodes and the Ptolemaic kingdom: the commercial infrastructure
- Chapter 5 Polybius and Ptolemaic sea power
- Chapter 6 Ptolemaic grain, seaways and power
- Chapter 7 Waterborne recruits: the military settlers of Ptolemaic Egypt
- Chapter 8 Our Academic visitor is missing: Posidippus 89 (A–B) and ‘smart capital’ for the thalassocrats
- Chapter 9 Aspects of the diffusion of Ptolemaic portraiture overseas
- Chapter 10 Ptolemies and piracy
- Chapter 11 TheNile police in the Ptolemaic period
- Chapter 12 Hellenistic royal barges
- Chapter 13 Eudoxus of Cyzicus and Ptolemaic exploration of the sea route to India
- Chapter 14 Timosthenes andEratosthenes: sea routes and Hellenistic geography
- Chapter 15 Claudius Ptolemy on Egypt and East Africa
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - The Ptolemaic League of Islanders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2013
- The Ptolemies, The Sea and The Nile
- The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- In memoriam F. W. Walbank
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The Ptolemaic League of Islanders
- Chapter 3 Callicrates of Samos and Patroclus of Macedon, champions of Ptolemaic thalassocracy
- Chapter 4 Rhodes and the Ptolemaic kingdom: the commercial infrastructure
- Chapter 5 Polybius and Ptolemaic sea power
- Chapter 6 Ptolemaic grain, seaways and power
- Chapter 7 Waterborne recruits: the military settlers of Ptolemaic Egypt
- Chapter 8 Our Academic visitor is missing: Posidippus 89 (A–B) and ‘smart capital’ for the thalassocrats
- Chapter 9 Aspects of the diffusion of Ptolemaic portraiture overseas
- Chapter 10 Ptolemies and piracy
- Chapter 11 TheNile police in the Ptolemaic period
- Chapter 12 Hellenistic royal barges
- Chapter 13 Eudoxus of Cyzicus and Ptolemaic exploration of the sea route to India
- Chapter 14 Timosthenes andEratosthenes: sea routes and Hellenistic geography
- Chapter 15 Claudius Ptolemy on Egypt and East Africa
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Ptolemies, the Sea and the NileStudies in Waterborne Power, pp. 19 - 38Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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